Sunday, May 31, 2009

The Smoking Gun

No more hushed whispers and pussy-footing around. America tortures; and it's not because of some imminent danger to the homeland that lurks behind every shadow. Nope. The pure and simple reason America tortures or at least the reason why it did is because Cheney wanted to link Saddam to 9/11 so he could justify going to war with Iraq, and any living sap who could corroborate this delusional madness had to be waterboarded or worse.

Don't believe...? Here's the smoking gun from Richard A. Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council under President George W. Bush as explained in yesterday's Washington Post.

Despite being told repeatedly that Iraq was not involved in 9/11, some, like Cheney, could not abandon the idea. Charles Duelfer of the CIA's Iraq Survey Group recently revealed in his book, "Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq," that high-level U.S. officials urged him to consider waterboarding specific Iraqi prisoners of war so that they could provide evidence of an Iraqi role in the terrorist attacks -- a request Duelfer refused. (A recent report indicates that the suggestion came from the vice president's office.)

Finally, an authoritative voice utters the inconceivable truth. Looks like during the Bush administration, The Decider was actually Cheney; and what Cheney wanted, Cheney got.

Well, there's only one way out of the moral decrepitude that was once boldly called the 'war on terror.' The naked-truth must now be revealed in some form of Nuremberg-like trials with every miscreant from the Bush administration under oath; and if we can't get the truth out of them, well, there's always enhanced interrogation techniques. After all, it's not as if we're not already on the list of nations who torture. Hell, even Abu Sanchez thinks that at minimum we should have a "a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture" by loyal patriots under Bush & Company.